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1 Middle English Breton Lays & Chaucer's Franklin's Tale
MIDDLE ENGLISH BRETON LAYS & CHAUCER’S FRANKLIN’S TALE Claire Vial, université de Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle 1 ÉDITIONS ****BENSON Larry D., The Riverside Chaucer: based on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer (1987), OxFord, OUP, 2008. CREPIN André, Les Contes de Canterbury, présentation et traduction nouvelle, Paris, Gallimard, « Folio classique », 2000. ****LASKAYA Anne, SALISBURY Eve (eds), The Middle English Breton Lays, Kalamazoo, MI, Medieval Institute Publications For TEAMS, “Middle English Texts”, 1995. Disponible en ligne : http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/teams/salisbur.htm ****MORGAN Gerald, The Franklin's Tale: from The Canterbury Tales, Dublin, Irish Academic Press, 1992. ****SPEARING A. C., Chaucer: The Franklin’s Prologue and Tale (1966), Cambridge, CUP, 1994. 2 MANUSCRITS NB : les réFérences aux manuscrits originaux Figurent dans le recueil de Laskaya et Salisbury ; dans la présente bibliographie, on a privilégié les analyses critiques des manuscrits. ALAMICHEL Marie-Françoise, « Paroles et silences », Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes, 2010, 19, p. 27-41. BLISS Alan J., “Notes on the Auchinleck Manuscript”, Speculum, Oct. 1951, 26-4: 652-658. ****BURNLEY David, WIGGINS Alison (eds), The Auchinleck Manuscript, National Library oF Scotland, 2003, http://auchinleck.nls.uk/ ***HANNA Ralph, “Reconsidering the Auchinleck Manuscript” in PEARSALL Derek (ed.), New Directions in Later Medieval Manuscript Studies: Essays From the 1998 Harvard Conference, Woodbridge, Boydell and Brewer, 2000, p. 91-102. **HIBBARD LOOMIS Laura, “Chaucer and the Breton Lays of the Auchinleck Manuscript”, Studies in Philology, 1941, 38: 14-33. Repr. in Adventures in the Middle Ages, New York, Burt Franklin, 1962, p. 131-149. Disponible en ligne : http://archive.org/stream/adventuresinmidd00loom/adventuresinmidd00loom_djvu.txt —, “The Auchinleck Manuscript and a Possible London Bookshop oF 1330-1340”, PMLA, 1942, 57: 595-627. -
Nobility in Middle English Romance
Nobility in Middle English Romance Marianne A. Fisher A dissertation submitted for the degree of PhD Cardiff University 2013 Summary of Thesis: Postgraduate Research Degrees Student ID Number: 0542351 Title: Miss Surname: Fisher First Names: Marianne Alice School: ENCAP Title of Degree: PhD (English Literature) Full Title of Thesis Nobility in Middle English Romance Student ID Number: 0542351 Summary of Thesis Medieval nobility was a compound and fluid concept, the complexity of which is clearly reflected in the Middle English romances. This dissertation examines fourteen short verse romances, grouped by story-type into three categories. They are: type 1: romances of lost heirs (Degaré, Chevelere Assigne, Sir Perceval of Galles, Lybeaus Desconus, and Octavian); type 2: romances about winning a bride (Floris and Blancheflour, The Erle of Tolous, Sir Eglamour of Artois, Sir Degrevant, and the Amis– Belisaunt plot from Amis and Amiloun); type 3: romances of impoverished knights (Amiloun’s story from Amis and Amiloun, Sir Isumbras, Sir Amadace, Sir Cleges, and Sir Launfal). The analysis is based on contextualized close reading, drawing on the theories of Pierre Bourdieu. The results show that Middle English romance has no standard criteria for defining nobility, but draws on the full range on contemporary opinion; understandings of nobility conflict both between and within texts. Ideological consistency is seldom a priority, and the genre apparently serves neither a single socio-political agenda, nor a single socio-political group. The dominant conception of nobility in each romance is determined by the story-type. Romance type 1 presents nobility as inherent in the blood, type 2 emphasizes prowess and force of will, and type 3 concentrates on virtue. -
Reading Across Languages in Medieval Britain by Jamie Ann Deangelis a Dissertation Submitted in Partial Satisfaction of the Requ
Reading Across Languages in Medieval Britain By Jamie Ann DeAngelis A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Jennifer Miller, Chair Professor Joseph Duggan Professor Maura Nolan Professor Annalee Rejhon Spring 2012 Reading Across Languages in Medieval Britain © 2012 by Jamie Ann DeAngelis Abstract Reading Across Languages in Medieval Britain by Jamie Ann DeAngelis Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature University of California, Berkeley Professor Jennifer Miller, Chair Reading Across Languages in Medieval Britain presents historical, textual, and codicological evidence to situate thirteenth- and fourteenth-century vernacular-to- vernacular translations in a reading milieu characterized by code-switching and “reading across languages.” This study presents the need for—and develops and uses—a new methodological approach that reconsiders the function of translation in this multilingual, multi-directional reading context. A large corpus of late thirteenth- through early fourteenth-century vernacular literature in Britain, in both English and Welsh, was derived from French language originals from previous centuries. These texts include mainly romances and chansons de geste, and evidence suggests that they were produced at the same time, and for the same audience, as later redactions of the texts in the original language. This evidence gives rise to the main question that drives this dissertation: what was the function of translation in a reading milieu in which translations and originals shared the same audience? Because a large number of the earliest or sole surviving translations into English from French language originals appear in Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Advocates’ MS 19.2.1 (the Auchinleck Manuscript), my study focuses on the translations preserved in this manuscript. -
English Alliterative Verse: Poetic Tradition and Literary History
ENGLISH ALLITERATIVE VERSE English Alliterative Verse tells the story of the medieval poetic tradition that includes Beowulf, Piers Plowman, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, stretching from the eighth century, when English poetry first appeared in manuscripts, to the sixteenth century, when alliterative poetry ceased to be composed. Eric Weiskott draws on the study of meter to challenge the traditional division of medieval English literary history into ‘Old English’ and ‘Middle English’ periods. The two halves of the alliterative tradition, divided by the Norman Conquest of 1066, have been studied separately since the nineteenth century; this book uses the history of metrical form and its cultural meanings to bring the two halves back together. In combining literary history and metrical description into a new kind of history he calls ‘verse history,’ Weiskott reimagines the historical study of poetics. eric weiskott is Assistant Professor of English at Boston College. In addition to publishing widely on alliterative verse and early English literary history in journals such as Anglo-Saxon England, ELH, Modern Language Quarterly, Modern Philology, Review of English Studies, and Yearbook of Langland Studies, Weiskott is also a practicing poet. Most recently, his poems have appeared in burnt- district, Cricket Online Review, and paper nautilus. His first poetry chapbook was Sharp Fish (2008). With Irina Dumitrescu, he has co- edited a volume of essays with the working title Early English Poetics and the History of Style. cambridge studies -
Romancing the Other: Non-Christian and Interfaith Marriage in Late Middle English Literature, 1300-1450
ROMANCING THE OTHER: NON-CHRISTIAN AND INTERFAITH MARRIAGE IN LATE MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE, 1300-1450 DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Jennifer Mary Gianfalla, M.A. ***** The Ohio State University 2009 Dissertation Committee: Approved by Professor Lisa J. Kiser, Advisor Professor Richard Firth Green Professor Karen A. Winstead ____________________________ Advisor English Graduate Program ABSTRACT This dissertation makes a significant contribution to postcolonial medieval studies by examining how fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Middle English authors use representations of non-Christian and interfaith marriages to enter a wider Christian European discourse centered around the threat of the religious Other. Because such marriages are not well documented historically in medieval England, my dissertation argues that their portrayal is not a reflection of actual practice, but rather a fantasy that allows these authors to engage actively in maintaining and defending the dominance of Christianity and the Catholic Church. As my readings show, these texts serve to bolster the Church’s campaign against non-Christians by moving this campaign to marriage’s domestic sphere. Marriage is thus not only politically important, as it enables alliances to be forged among kingdoms and nations; it is now also religiously important, as it becomes a means for the culture to fantasize about the extent to which Christianity can dominate. The texts I examine cover an extensive period of the later Middle Ages, ranging from 1300 to 1450; the period of one hundred fifty years indicates that authors maintained an interest in conversion as a consequence of marriage and suggests that this motif was pervasive. -
Acomparative Study of Middle English Romance and Modern Popular Sheikh Romance
DESIRING THE EAST: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF MIDDLE ENGLISH ROMANCE AND MODERN POPULAR SHEIKH ROMANCE AMY BURGE PHD UNIVERSITY OF YORK WOMEN‟S STUDIES SEPTEMBER 2012 ABSTRACT This thesis comparatively examines a selection of twenty-first century sheikh romances and Middle English romances from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries that imagine an erotic relationship occurring between east and west. They do so against a background of conflict, articulated in military confrontation and binary religious and ethnic division. The thesis explores the strategies used to facilitate the cross-cultural relationship across such a gulf of difference and considers what a comparison of medieval and modern romance can reveal about attitudes towards otherness in popular romance. In Chapter 1, I analyse the construction of the east in each genre, investigating how the homogenisation of the romance east in sheikh romance distances it from the geopolitical reality of those parts of the Middle East seen, by the west, to be „other‟. Chapter 2 examines the articulation of gender identity and the ways in which these romances subvert and reassert binary gender difference to uphold normative heterosexual relations. Chapter 3 considers how ethnic and religious difference is nuanced, in particular through the use of fabric, breaking down the disjunction between east and west. Chapter 4 investigates the way ethnicity, religion and gender affect hierarchies of power in the abduction motif, enabling undesirable aspects of the east to be recast. The key finding of this thesis is that both romance genres facilitate the cross-cultural erotic relationship by rewriting apparently binary differences of religion and ethnicity to create sameness. -
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«*X£- ttiolibom «^\^^£. THE NEW MEDIEVAL LIBRARY THE NHW MEDIEVAL LIUKARV THE CHATELAINE OKVERGI. Translaleil from ihe Middle- French by Ai.iCK Kkmp- Welch, with an Introduction by Professor L. M. IIkandin. {A itau and revised edition. THE BOOK OF THE DUKE OF TRUE LOVERS. Now first translated from the Middle- French, with Introduction and Notes, by Alice Kemf-Welch. The Ballads rendered into the original metres by Laukence BiNvoN and Kric Maci.agan. OF THE TUMBLER OF OUR LADY. Now first translated from the Middle-French, with Introdnction and Notes, by Alick Kemf-Wei.ch. THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY FINA. VIRGIN OF SANTO GIMINIANO. Now first trans- lated from the Fonrteenth-Cen- tury Manuscript of Fra Giovanni di Coppo, with Introduction and Notes, by M. Mansfield. THE BABEES' BOOK : Medieval Manners fou the Young. In modern English from Dr. Furnivall's texts, with Intro- duction and Notes, by Edith Ricicert. THE BOOK OF THE DIVINE CONSOLATION OF SAINT ANGELA DA FOLIGNO. Now translated from the Italian by Mary G. Steegmann, withan Introduction by Algar Thokold. Vn/'.ef'aration. Digitized by tine Internet Arcliive in 2008 witli funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation littp://www.arcliive.org/details/earlyenglisliromaOOrickuoft %^|?lf'i^^g/|^pif|^' i^i The title on the reverse of this page has been adapted by Miss Blanche C. Hunter from iJ.M. Harley MS. 2952, f. 126. EARLY ENGLISH RO- MANCES IN VERSE: DONE INTO MODERN ENGLISH BY EDITH RICKERT: ROMANCES OF LOVE CHATTO AND WINDUS : LONDON NEW YORK : DUFFIELD &" CO. 1908 A53 ,41/ ri<;hts reserved CONTENTS PAGE INTRODUCTION xi FLORIS AND BLANCHEFLODR SIR ORFEO LAY OF THE ASH . -
Reading Landscapes in Medieval British Romance
READING LANDSCAPES IN MEDIEVAL BRITISH ROMANCE DISSERTATION Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Doctor of Philosophy in the Graduate School of The Ohio State University By Andrew Murray Richmond, M. Phil. Graduate Program in English The Ohio State University 2015 Dissertation Committee: Dr. Lisa J. Kiser, Adviser Dr. Richard Firth Green Dr. Ethan Knapp Dr. Karen Winstead Copyright by Andrew Murray Richmond 2015 ABSTRACT My dissertation establishes a new framework with which to interpret the textual landscapes and ecological details that permeate late-medieval British romances from the period of c.1300 – c. 1500, focusing on the ways in which such landscapes reflect the diverse experiences of medieval readers and writers. In particular, I identify and explain fourteenth- and fifteenth-century English and Scottish conceptions of the relationships between literary worlds and “real-world” locations. In my first section, I analyze the role of topography and the management of natural resources in constructing a sense of community in Sir Isumbras, William of Palerne, and Havelok the Dane, and explain how abandoned or ravaged agricultural landscapes in Sir Degrevant and the Tale of Gamelyn betray anxieties about the lack of human control over the English landscape in the wake of population decline caused by civil war, the Black Death, and the Little Ice Age. My next section examines seashores and waterscapes in Sir Amadace, Emaré, Sir Eglamour of Artois, the Awntyrs off Arthure, and the Constance romances of Chaucer and Gower. Specifically, I explain how a number of romances present the seaside as a simultaneously inviting and threatening space whose multifaceted nature as a geographical, political, and social boundary embodies the complex range of meanings embedded in the Middle English concept of “play” – a word that these texts often link with the seashore. -
Fairies, Kingship, and the British Past in Walter Map's De Nugis Curialium and Sir Orfeo
UC Berkeley UC Berkeley Electronic Theses and Dissertations Title Fairies, Kingship, and the British Past in Walter Map's De Nugis Curialium and Sir Orfeo Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8zh4b6x4 Author Schwieterman, Patrick Joseph Publication Date 2010 Peer reviewed|Thesis/dissertation eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California Fairies, Kingship, and the British Past in Walter Map’s De Nugis Curialium and Sir Orfeo by Patrick Joseph Schwieterman A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English in the Graduate Division of the University of California, Berkeley Committee in charge: Professor Maura Nolan, Chair Professor Jennifer Miller Professor John Lindow Fall 2010 Fairies, Kingship, and the British Past in Walter Map’s De Nugis Curialium and Sir Orfeo © 2010 by Patrick Joseph Schwieterman Abstract Fairies, Kingship, and the British Past in Walter Map’s De Nugis Curialium and Sir Orfeo by Patrick Joseph Schwieterman Doctor of Philosophy in English University of California, Berkeley Professor Maura Nolan, Chair My dissertation focuses on two fairy narratives from medieval Britain: the tale of Herla in Walter Map’s twelfth-century De Nugis Curialium, and the early fourteenth-century romance Sir Orfeo. I contend that in both texts, fairies become intimately associated with conceptions of the ancient British past, and, more narrowly, with the idea of a specifically insular kingship that seeks its legitimization within that past. In Chapter One, I argue that Map’s longer version of the Herla narrative is his own synthesis of traditional materials, intended to highlight the continuity of a notion of British kingship that includes the pygmy king, Herla and Henry II. -
The Cultured Barbarian: the Saracen Princess in Bevis of Hampton
Wenshan Review of Literature and Culture．Vol 5.1．December 2011．45-65. The Cultured Barbarian: The Saracen Princess in Bevis of Hampton Chen-chih Liao ABSTRACT The “Barbre nacioun” in the Man of Law’s Tale is “Surrye”, a nation of Muslims which stands for a pagan world. For Custance, it symbolizes savagery and uncivilization. Though reluctant, as a woman she can only surrender to her father‟s will and governance. In fact, the Saracenic culture was by no means barbarous in the Middle Ages. In Middle English romances, the religious antagonism between the Saracens and the Christians is one of the most prevalent themes. The paradigm proclaimed by Sir Roland in The Song of Roland “The pagans are wrong and the Christians are right” (1015) persists throughout medieval English literature. However, in addition to the role as religious counterpart, in English romances alternative representations of the Saracens are not rare as might be supposed. In this article, I aim to examine how the Middle English romancer represents the alien culture in Bevis of Hampton embodied by the Saracen princess, Josian. I will contend that the romancer shows some traces of fair appraisal of the other culture and fair representations of the Saracens. KEY WORDS: barbarian, the Saracen, the Saracenic culture, the Medieval English romance, Bevis of Hampton * Received: April 22, 2011; Accepted: December 2, 2011 Chen-chih Liao, PhD, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Sun Yat-sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan E-mail: [email protected] 46 Wenshan -
Saracens and Christian Heroism in Sirbeves of Hamtoun
The Anxieties of Encounter and Exchange: Saracens and Christian Heroism in SirBeves of Hamtoun Siobhain Bly Calkin As Edward Said, Norman Daniel, and Dorothee Metlitzki have pointed out, the purportedly Muslim figures who appear in medieval western literature usually bear little or no resemblance to historical Muslims of the period. Said states, "we need not look for correspondence between the language used to depict the Orient and the Orient itself, not so much because the language is inaccurate but because it is not even trying to be accurate" (71). Similarly, Daniel and Metlitzki identify repeated stereotypical misrepresentations of Islam in medieval literary texts, such as the de- piction of Islam as a polytheistic religion or the depiction of alcohol-drinking Mus- lims (Daniel 3-4, 49-51, 72-73, 81, 133-54; Metlitzki 209-10). It is certainly true that there is little or no mimetic relationship between literary Saracens and historical Muslims, but it should be noted that literary Saracens, despite their inaccuracies, did connote for the West an extremely powerful, technologically advanced Muslim civi- lization, which both impressed medieval Christians with its scientific knowledge and immense wealth, and menaced them militarily with its many victories over crusad- ers and its capacity for territorial expansion.1 Thus, while the Saracens of western literature may not offer us a historically accurate vision of medieval Islam, they can occasionally offer us some insight into the anxieties historical Islam posed for the West. This essay examines moments in the fourteenth-century Middle English ro- mance SirBeves of Hamtoun when the text's depiction of one knight's assimilation into a Saracen world communicates historical anxieties about how life in a Saracen Florilegium 21 (2004) Sir Beves of Hamtoun enclave might compromise the Christian heroism of an English knight. -
The Auchinleck Manuscript and Women's Reading in 14Th
WOMEN’S GATHERING: THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPT AND WOMEN’S READING IN 14TH CENTURY LONDON A Dissertation Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of Cornell University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by Matthew Clinton McConnell January 2017 © 2017 Matthew Clinton McConnell WOMEN’S GATHERING: THE AUCHINLECK MANUSCRIPT AND WOMEN’S READING IN 14TH CENTURY LONDON Matthew Clinton McConnell, Ph.D. 2017 Women’s Gathering argues that MS Advocates 19.2.1 (Auchinleck) provides key evidence for understanding the early 14th century London literary scene that fostered Chaucer. Reading Chaucer and the Auchinleck side by side, I show that the manuscript’s sustained concern about women’s agency mirrors Chaucer’s, and that the complexity with which Chaucer treats that agency can be found in the Auchinleck too. Furthermore, I argue that the similarity is not due to a direct line of influence between manuscript and author, but stems from a mutually shared 14th century London literary microculture. The introduction argues that the Auchinleck scribes performed the process of textual collocation as a consciously literary act of gathering, not simply as a collection in a material object. Their collocation of texts spanning multiple genres informs our understanding of their own scribal activity and of Chaucer’s. This in turn requires that we acknowledge the London literary culture of the early—and not just of the late— fourteenth century for its contributions to our understanding of the romance genre, and of women’s relationship to it. Particularly with the texts that focus on women as agents in history and narrative, I argue that the manuscript genders the reading practices of its 14th century audience and is thus predicated on reading practices that circumscribed 14th century femininity.